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Hello:
           I am suddenly finding that one of my email accounts is getting tons of new spam emails per day. I gather there was a website that sold my email account information.
           These emails are not from the same source but all seem to be targeting my main email that I use for business.
           They are not like stores where you sign up and you can elect out of future emails.  I can't just change my email because so many of my business contacts use this email.  It would be a long process to notify everyone of a new email and I would never find all of them since some write back after years of no activity.

          Is there a way to solve this problem?  Do I have to go one by one and mark them as spam in the hopes they don't reach my inbox?

Thanks for your help,
Bob
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Hi Bob,

You could try an online SPAM filtering service like SPAMHero, which filters all your e-mail before sending it to your mailbox.

We've been using this service for several months, and it has been very effective.
What kind of email address is this?  Is it a free email like gmail or is it an exchange email address?  Also, I am guessing you don't have an AntiSpam service.
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in my opinion you have to unscribe that emails and those emails never reach to your inbox or spam. you can find this link on the bottom of the email, you want subscribe
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"in my opinion you have to unscribe..."
Except for mailing lists you know are legitimate, you should never click an unsubscribe link.  That proves to the spammer the e-mail address is monitored.
but if you dont unscribe you need to delete every day that spam
If you unsubscribe from actual spam list, they ignore your request and sell your address to others as a known active email address.  Spammers don't care if you don't want it but they do want to know if you got it.  Trying to unsubscribe tells them that you did.

Just improve your spam filtering and delete as needed.
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Ok, thanks everyone. I'll need to work on this after hours or weekend.
Bob
Over the last 15 years, spam has gone up and down.  Microsoft and some others are actively trying to shutdown spammers because the spammers waste so much of their resources on Hotmail and Gmail and Yahoo.  When they find one of the big spammers and shut them down, spam goes down (worldwide!) for a while until the next one pops up.
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Thanks for all the options. I will try one by one or maybe launch several. It is very irritating and I don't know how but a bunch of them say they are from me!  How is that done?
Bob
technologybob--
"a bunch of them say they are from me"
That can occur several ways.  One is that  malware has infiltrated your PC and hijacked your email address.  Another is that malware has infiltrated the PC of a friend of yours and is sending emails using the addresses in your friend's contact list--which list includes yours.
Unfortunately there is little you can do other than change your email password.
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